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Quarterly and annualised UK growth figures for Q4 2014 have narrowly missed expectations after the construction sector underwhelmed at the end of the year.

Dale Nicholls, portfolio manager of the Fidelity China Special Situations fund, explains why the fixation on China's headline growth figures needs to stop in order to focus on the country's reform agenda and e-commerce opportunities like Alibaba

UK GDP is confirmed to have risen 0.7% in Q3 - but the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revised down a string of recent annualised growth figures.

With developed economies flirting with deflation, central banks will likely regard the oil price slump as troublesome. M&G's Jim Leaviss explains how short-term deflation could turn to long-term growth boost.

Andrew Lebus, Pantheon International Participations investment trust manager, explains how recent changes in China have helped create a tailwind for opportunities in the US manufacturing sector.

Mark Williams, manager of the Liontrust Asia Income fund, highlights how far India has come over the past year and why, despite its strength, better opportunities may exist elsewhere in Asia in 2015.

Japan's economy shrank more than initially estimated in the third quarter of 2014, according to revised gross domestic product (GDP) figures.

Europe's economy is clearly deteriorating, with the stand-off between Germany and the peripheral nations continuing to hamper attempts to reform the region.

The Office for Budget Responsibility has revised up government borrowing forecasts for 2014 and 2015 - but figures for the following years are lower than previously estimated, according to Chancellor George Osborne.

It has been a turbulent couple of months for policy makers in Japan.